This project serves as an exploration of possible interactions between tool use, diet, social groupings and other variables, and is far from comprehensive. Future work should consider the role of resource distribution and perhaps predation risk, among other factors.
The data was procured.
Watts (2020) reviewed meat eating across primates.
## `summarise()` has grouped output by 'prey'. You can override using the
## `.groups` argument.
| prey | haplorrhini | strepsirrhini |
|---|---|---|
| amphibia | 47 | 3 |
| aves | 147 | 13 |
| mammalia | 156 | 4 |
| squamata | 65 | 10 |
| teleostei | 13 | 0 |
| vertebrata | 3 | 0 |
## `summarise()` has grouped output by 'use_tools'. You can override using the
## `.groups` argument.
| use_tools | haplorrhini | strepsirrhini |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 131 | 45 |
| 1 | 37 | 0 |
ANOVA
DeCasien, A. R., Trujillo, A. E., Janiak, M. C., Harshaw, E. P., Caes, Z. N., Galindo, G. A., … & Higham, J. P. (2022). Equivocal evidence for a link between megalencephaly-related genes and primate brain size evolution. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-10.
Watts, D. P. (2020). Meat eating by nonhuman primates: a review and synthesis. Journal of human evolution, 149, 102882.